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Michael Du
Michael Du

Reputation: 729

Why is "Free Storage Space" in AWS RDS measured in MB/Sec?

I'm trying to set up a cloudwatch trigger to send me an email when my RDS database (MySQL) capacity is low, but when I'm configuring (and also monitoring) the Free Storage Space metric, it's measured in MB/Sec. The current max capacity is 20,000 MB/Sec which is equivalent to the 20gb limit I have, but I want to make sure I'm looking at the right metric. Is this the right metric? And if so, why is it measured per second?

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Upvotes: 10

Views: 9068

Answers (1)

Marcin
Marcin

Reputation: 238309

FreeStorageSpace is in Bytes:

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Also, the use of this metric to create alarm is explained in detail in:

Upvotes: 3

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